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Product Owner

Jamison Perry

Product Owner

Overland Park, KS
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    About the Product Owner position

    We are looking for a responsible Product Owner who will . You will work with our cross-functional teams to help them design, build and roll-out products that deliver the company's vision and strategy.

    We expect you to be passionate about building products that customers love. You also should be comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

     

    Product Owner responsibilities are:

    • Identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth

    • Take lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner

    • Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements 

    • Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on

    • Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product

    • Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities 

    • Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy

    • Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories

    • Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI

    • Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new   functionalities

    • Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

    • Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product

    • Follow our competitors and the industry 

    • Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends

    • Research, understand and analyze customer needs and expectations

    • Develop buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners

    • Review and update product pricing and positioning strategies

    • Prepare detailed product requirements and prototypes, based on the product strategy

    • Review and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact

    • Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources

    • Organize product launches including working with public relations team, executives, and other product management team members

    • Analyze promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed

    • Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding

    • Build relations with customers to solicit feedback on company products and services

     

    Product Owner requirements are:

    • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

    • Demonstrable measurement capabilities

    • 2 years as a product owner for web products/apps/sites

    • Entrepreneurship experience

    • Significant experience of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle

    • Significant experience of developing product and marketing strategies and effectively communicating recommendations to executive management

    • Excellent understanding of software development and web technologies

    • Strong problem solving skills and high responsibility

    • Strong ability of working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization

    • Strong written and verbal communication skill